Married Eva Griffin has been caught with a prominent congressman, and is ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid hush money to protect the politician. But first, criminal defense lawyer and sleuth Perry Mason tracks down the publisher of the blackmailing tabloid and discovers a shocking secret. That secrete eventually leads to Mason being accused of murder.

The Case of the Velvet Claws is the first Perry Mason mystery and your introduction to secretary Della Street, detective Paul Drake and the great lawyer, Perry Mason, himself!